#ten

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#brilliant #completely #even #everybody #i

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time. ↗

— Ira Glass

#people #problems #public #public radio #radio

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#active #interrupt #know #listeners #talking

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you. ↗

— Charles Mengel Allen

#friends #get #interested #make #month

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person. ↗

— Alan Alda

#being #changed #listening #other #person

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#ghost #ghost stories #ghosts #more #science

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions! ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#against #always #assistance #beauty #collaborator

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence. ↗

— William Glasser

#being #believe #competence #hard #human

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#character #easily #form #individual #nature

Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#brain #dependent #eternal #evidence #hard